Comparison

Five Tasks vs Ivy6

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Five Tasks

This productivity app encourages users to focus on essential tasks by limiting their to-do list. It helps prioritize what's important, preventing overwhelm and ensuring key items get done.

Highlights
  • Task prioritization
  • Limited to-do list
  • Simplified interface
  • Focus on important tasks
  • Task completion aid
Features
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Welcome to Five, the to-do app with a limit. By putting a limitation on your to-do list, you are forced to prioritise and focus on what’s important. Five helps you do this with an incredibly simple app With Five you will stop taking on too many tasks, many of which you wouldn’t have time to complete anyway. So welcome to the first step toward simplifying your to-do list, and getting the important tasks done!

About

Ivy6

This app helps you focus on your most important tasks by limiting your daily priorities to six. It offers distraction-free focus sessions with customizable timers and provides insights into your work habits. Unlock advanced features with a one-time purchase for seamless cross-device syncing and detailed analytics.

Highlights
  • Limit to six daily priorities
  • Distraction-free focus sessions
  • Customizable timers (stopwatch, countdown, Pomodoro)
  • Inbox for capturing ideas
  • Daily reset for unfinished tasks
  • Cross-device iCloud sync
  • Weekly insights and analytics
Features
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SIX PRIORITIES. ONE CLEAR DAY. Long to-do lists create noise. Ivy6 helps you decide what truly matters, work on one task at a time, and end the day knowing you did the important things. Built on the Ivy Lee Method, a 100-year-old productivity ritual, Ivy6 gives you a calm daily planner for iPhone, iPad and Mac: 1. Capture everything in your Inbox. 2. Choose your six most important tasks. 3. Put them in order. 4. Work through them one at a time. 5. Plan tomorrow tonight, and start fresh in the morning. YOUR DAILY 6 Commit to no more than six priorities. The limit makes you choose deliberately instead of carrying an endless list from day to day. CAPTURE NOW, DECIDE LATER Ideas, errands and future tasks wait in your Inbox until they earn a place in your plan. Add estimates, subtasks, tags, snooze and recurring routines when you need them. FOCUS ON ONE TASK Start a distraction-free session for your current priority. Use a stopwatch, a 5-minute sprint, Pomodoro or a countdown, and see how much time you really give to meaningful work. PLAN TOMORROW TONIGHT In the evening, Ivy6 invites you to choose tomorrow's priorities in order. Unfinished tasks return to your Inbox for a conscious decision, so every morning starts clean. MADE FOR APPLE DEVICES • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Live Activities and Dynamic Island during Focus • Siri and Shortcuts for quick capture and your next priority • Read-only calendar context beside your plan • Native layouts for iPhone and iPad • A Mac app with menu bar access and keyboard shortcuts • Morning, evening and weekly review reminders • Break large tasks into smaller steps UNDERSTAND HOW YOU WORK Review completed tasks, focus time, streaks, rollover patterns and stale tasks, so you can plan a realistic day, not just a longer list. IVY6 PRO: ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Unlock everything forever with a single purchase: • Private iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac • Advanced weekly insights and task-level focus analytics • Full task history and a guided Weekly Review • Seasonal themes • Data export • Apple Intelligence task breakdown on supported devices PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No tracking. No account to create. Your tasks stay on your device and, if you choose Pro sync, in your own private iCloud. Choose six. Focus on one. Finish what matters.

Screenshots

Five Tasks3 screens
Ivy64 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Five Tasks at 50% against Ivy6's 0%. Five Tasks also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Ivy6's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ivy6 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Five Tasks asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Five Tasks versus Ivy6: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFive TasksIvy6
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSpencer WaldenGiuseppe Pignataro

Customer experience

Five Tasks

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Ivy6

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Five Tasks

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Ivy6

One-time1
  • Ivy6 Pro (Lifetime)$3.99

Questions

Is Five Tasks free?
Five Tasks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ivy6 free?
Ivy6 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Five Tasks or Ivy6 have ads?
Neither Five Tasks nor Ivy6 shows ads.

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